Welcome to the headquarters of the Bar on the Corner of Every Region! This utmost precious facility management unit is the magical conference room of our bar. It is just meant for undisturbed discussions of the bar team about how to make improvements since the bar traffic renders it sometimes hard to focus on a topic. Be serious!

Ah, and bar guests, please go after your business in this room silently, and do not feed the Cthulhu... thanks.

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Speaking of hyperbole--and, hey, we can quote ourselves ... who knew?--last weekend I was helping a friend out at an art show, and I got to be the male equivalent of a booth-babe, nice eye candy for the masses. Hadta keep smiling, 'cause no one wants to buy from vendors who look annoyed--unless you're my artist friend Polly, who has somehow managed to turn "aging belligerent pothead" into the type of irascible-but-lovable homespun character Hollywood makes sitcoms about. She's one of those people who never puts a price tag on anything but instead charges what she thinks you're worth--er, willing to pay--which led to lots of conversations that featured the following:

Random shopper: "Forty dollars? I thought you told that other guy it was twenty!"

Polly: "If you heard me tell him the price, sh!thead, what are you asking me again for? That extra twenty is 'cause you're bothering me."

And people paid it. Go figure. Who knew the secret to successful capitalism is an abusive relationship with one's customers? We'll call that "marketing" and move on.

Plus, she has weaponized the word "fu˘ktangular" to describe situations that are complicated and/or messy. (Meaning, her life in general.) I was in the presence of greatness, and I hereby serve notice to everyone here and in the Bar that I am stealing this word and will be using it generously in the next several days.

Just a heads up, I'm back again. If anything major happened in the past 5ish months, feel free to let me know, but I'll be poking my head on this nation, well, try to, at least once a day, maybe more, depends on my work shifts really.